Code of Virginia - Title 56 Public Service Companies - Chapter 23 Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act
- 56-576 Definitions
As used in this chapter: "Affiliate" means any person that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with an electric utility. "Aggregator" means ...
- 56-577 Schedule for transition to retail competition; Commission authority; exemptions; pilot program...
A. Retail competition for the purchase and sale of electric energy shall be subject to the following provisions: 1. Each incumbent electric utility owning, operating, ...
- 56-578 Nondiscriminatory access to transmission and distribution system
A. All distributors shall have the obligation to connect any retail customer, including those using distributed generation, located within its service territory to those facilities ...
- 56-579 Regional transmission entities
A. As set forth in § 56-577, each incumbent electric utility owning, operating, controlling, or having an entitlement to transmission capacity shall join or establish ...
- 56-580 Transmission and distribution of electric energy
A. Subject to the provisions of § 56-585.1, the Commission shall continue to regulate pursuant to this title the distribution of retail electric energy to ...
- 56-581 Regulation of rates subject to Commission's jurisdiction
A. After the expiration or termination of capped rates except as provided in § 56-585.1, the Commission shall regulate the rates of investor-owned incumbent electric ...
- 56-581.1 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 888 and 933, cl. 2. ...
- 56-582 Rate caps
A. The Commission shall establish capped rates, effective January 1, 2001, for each service territory of every incumbent utility as follows: 1. Capped rates shall ...
- 56-583 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 888 and 933, cl. 2. ...
- 56-584 Stranded costs
Just and reasonable net stranded costs, to the extent that they exceed zero value in total for the incumbent electric utility, shall be recoverable by ...
- 56-585 Default service
A. The Commission shall, after notice and opportunity for hearing, (i) determine the components of default service and (ii) establish one or more programs making ...
- 56-585.1 Generation, distribution, and transmission rates after capped rates terminate or expire
A. During the first six months of 2009, the Commission shall, after notice and opportunity for hearing, initiate proceedings to review the rates, terms and ...
- 56-585.2 Sale of electricity from renewable sources through a renewable energy portfolio standard progra...
A. As used in this section: "Renewable energy" shall have the same meaning ascribed to it in § 56-576, provided such renewable energy is (i) ...
- 56-585.3 Regulation of cooperative rates after rate caps
After the expiration or termination of capped rates, the rates, terms and conditions of distribution electric cooperatives subject to Article 1 (§ 56-231.15 et seq.) ...
- 56-586 Emergency service provider
On and after January 1, 2001, if any supplier fails to fulfill an obligation, resulting in the failure of retail electric energy to be delivered ...
- 56-586.1 Electric energy emergencies
A. As used in this section, "electric energy emergency" means an unplanned interruption in the generation or transmission of electricity resulting from a hurricane, ice ...
- 56-587 Licensure of retail electric energy suppliers and persons providing other competitive service...
A. As a condition of doing business in the Commonwealth, each person except a default service provider seeking to sell, offering to sell, or selling ...
- 56-588 Licensing of aggregators
A. As a condition of doing business in the Commonwealth, each person seeking to act as an aggregator within this Commonwealth on and after January ...
- 56-589 Municipal and state aggregation
A. Subject to the provisions of subdivision A 3 of § 56-577, counties, cities, and towns (hereafter municipalities) and other political subdivisions of the Commonwealth ...
- 56-590 Divestiture, functional separation and other corporate relationships
A. The Commission shall not require any incumbent electric utility to divest itself of any generation, transmission or distribution assets pursuant to any provision of ...
- 56-591 Application of antitrust laws
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to exempt or immunize from punishment or prosecution, conduct violative of federal antitrust laws, or the antitrust laws ...
- 56-592 Consumer education and marketing practices
A. The Commission shall develop an electric energy consumer education program designed to provide the following information to retail customers: 1. Information regarding energy conservation, ...
- 56-592.1 Consumer education program; scope and funding
A. The Commission shall establish and implement the consumer education program developed pursuant to subsection A of § 56-592. In establishing such a program, the ...
- 56-593 Retail customers' private right of action; marketing practices
A. No entity subject to this chapter shall use any deception, fraud, false pretense, misrepresentation, or any deceptive or unfair practices in providing, distributing or ...
- 56-594 Net energy metering provisions
A. The Commission shall establish by regulation a program, to begin no later than July 1, 2000, which affords eligible customer-generators the opportunity to participate ...
- 56-595 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2003, c. 885. ...
- 56-596 Consideration of economic development; report
A. In all relevant proceedings pursuant to this Act, the Commission shall take into consideration, among other things, the goal of economic development in the ...
Last modified: April 3, 2009